Configuring player information forwarding¶
Velocity supports forwarding information about your players to your servers, such as IP addresses, UUIDs, and skins. Velocity supports two different methods for forwarding player information to your servers:
modern
forwarding is a Velocity-native format. It forwards all player information in an efficient binary format and ensures that nobody tries to trick the server into impersonating your Velocity proxy. However, it is only available for Minecraft 1.13 or higher.legacy
forwarding is the player information forwarding protocol used by BungeeCord. This is extremely compatible across all Minecraft versions that Velocity supports, but requires proper configuration to ensure that nobody pretends to be your proxy by using a firewall or a plugin like IPWhitelist.
Configuring modern forwarding¶
Currently, only build 377 and above of Paper 1.13.1+ support Velocity’s modern forwarding.
To use modern forwarding with any supported server implementation, set the player-info-forwarding
setting in velocity.toml
to modern
. You must also change the forwarding-secret
setting to a unique secret. You then need to ensure your server is properly configured to
use modern Velocity forwarding.
Paper¶
To allow Paper to understand the forwarded player data, in your paper.yml
, set
settings.velocity-support.enabled
to true
and settings.velocity-support.secret
to match the secret in your velocity.toml
. You must also set settings.velocity-support.online-mode
to the online-mode
setting in your velocity.toml
. Once you’re done editing
paper.yml
, reboot your server.
Configuring legacy BungeeCord-compatible forwarding¶
If you need to use legacy BungeeCord-compatible forwarding, simply set your player-info-forwarding
setting in velocity.toml
to legacy
. You will also need to make sure your server
is properly configured to understand the data.
Caution
Legacy BungeeCord-compatible forwarding allows anyone to pretend they are your proxy and allow them to log in under any username or IP address! You must make sure that you have a firewall set up on your servers or use a plugin such as IPWhitelist to make sure your servers are protected.
Spigot / Paper¶
To make Spigot or Paper understand the data forwarded from Velocity, set settings.bungeecord
to
true
in your spigot.yml
and then reboot your server.
Sponge¶
To configure Sponge to understand the data forwarded from Velocity, set modules.bungeecord
to true
and bungeecord.ip-forwarding
to true
in your config/sponge/global.conf
file, and then restart
your Sponge server.